Self-Care
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It’s OK Not To Want It All
It’s ok not to want it all. There’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t. When we marched for the vote, when we burned our bras, when we smashed those glass ceilings that promised ascension for some…. but not, it seemed, for you, when we created a plethora of opportunity for ourselves and our daughters, we were actually delivering the gift of choice. With every choice you make you are crafting your life. You are making a declaration of your existence, your difference, your presence here, right now. It’s ok not to want it all. There’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t. Because the choice to say no,…
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Owning Every Step – A Journey Into Sovereignty
She caught my eye as the bus idled at the stoplight. It wasn’t her slightly outlandish clothes – one becomes anaesthetised to quirk in Edinburgh during August – it was the way each step she took seemed a weary yet inevitable risk that the ground wouldn’t rise up to meet her where she stood. Her pace was slow, her gait heavy and hesitant, the full sole of her foot connecting with the pavement simultaneously. No lightness, no bounce, no spring. Just the weighty awkward movement of a woman who appeared to no longer trust the earth beneath her feet. As I sat and watched her making her slow way past…
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What The Butterfly Knows
One of my favourite apps for my iPhone (besides from Pixlr Express!) is Sarah Bamford Seidelmann‘s What The Walrus Knows. It’s a really cool wee app which delivers animal wisdom to you through an oracle function, as well as providing a field guide. For example, if you keep finding crow feathers, or you’re being stalked by tortoises, you can check out what guidance that animal has for you. So, when I was beginning to put together A Summer of Self & Soul, I asked which animal wanted to step forward to accompany those who were choosing to go on this journey together. Butterfly flitted forth. And when I read her…
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Selfies As Sacred Practice
What if selfies formed the basis of your sacred practice? What do you think you’d discover about yourself? About your connection to the divine? About your cultural conditioning? About the contents of your heart? About the tender truths that are asking to be spoken? I would love to support you over this summer as you unveil to yourself the exquisiteness of you – your self and your soul – through the sacred practice of taking, creating and sharing a daily selfie in an intimate, closed group. If this sounds challenging to you, trust me, that’s because it’s challenging! However, if you feel that tug, that call, that longing that you…
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Are You Ready for A Summer of Self & Soul?
It’s been almost a year since I started to take selfies on a daily basis. Almost without realising I developed a practice that has been, quite simply, a soft revolution. And now it’s time to open this practice up to you so that you can experience the gifts it can offer… I’ve written about my selfie practice before, but when I looked back at the post I wrote after only the first week of this practice, I discovered that I had already made one of the most powerful observations of this whole practice… I don’t have to be the person I’ve always been. That there isn’t the fixity of self that I’ve…
